Dr Sam Roberts

Senior Lecturer in Psychology



School of Psychology

Liverpool John Moores University, UK



Publications


We always publish open access where possible. Due to copyright restrictions, I am unable to put the PDFs of the articles below on this page, but if you are unable to access the full-text of any publications, email me and I will be happy to send you the PDF. You can also access these publications through the LJMU Research Online Repository.

Construction of the Views oN Infant Sleep (VNIS) Questionnaire


I Boedker, HL Ball, M Richter, TL South, SGB Roberts

Early Human Development, vol. 191, Elsevier BV, 2024 Mar 15, pp. 1--7


No relationships between self-reported Instagram use or type of use and mental well-being: A study using a nationally representative online sample of UK adults


SGB Roberts, C Malcolm, K McCarty, TV Pollet

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, vol. 18, Masaryk University, 2024 Feb 1


The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends


VV Hidd, M Zhang, S Centellegher, SGB Roberts, B Lepri, E López

Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, The Royal Society, England, 2023 Oct 25, p. 230834


HEXACO Personality Factors and their Associations with Facebook use and Facebook Network Characteristics.


RM Brown, SG Roberts, TV Pollet

Psychological Reports, SAGE Publications, United States, 2023 May 26, pp. 332941231176403--332941231176403


The stability of transient relationships


VV Hidd, E López, S Centellegher, SGB Roberts, B Lepri, RIM Dunbar

Scientific Reports, vol. 13, Nature Research, England, 2023 Apr 14, p. 6120


Are we measuring loneliness in the same way in men and women in the general population and in the older population? Two studies of measurement equivalence


TV Pollet, A Thompson, C Malcolm, K McCarty, TK Saxton, SGB Roberts

GHAFFAR Ali, PLOS ONE, vol. 17, Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022 Dec 29


Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: neuropsychological mechanisms underpinning the processing of social information


SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar, AI Roberts

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 377, The Royal Society, England, 2022 Aug 8, pp. 20210295--20210295


Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: preface to the theme issue


SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar, AI Roberts

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 377, The Royal Society, England, 2022 Aug 8, pp. 20220115--20220115


Intentional gesturing increases social complexity by allowing recipient's understanding of intentions when it is inhibited by stress


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 377, The Royal Society, England, 2022 Aug 8, pp. 20210305--20210305


Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals


L Damjanovic, SGB Roberts, AI Roberts

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 377, The Royal Society, England, 2022 Aug 8, pp. 20210311--20210311


The Stability of Transient Relationships


VV Hidd, E Lopez, S Centellegher, S Roberts, B Lepri, R Dunbar

2022 Apr 12


Between-task consistency, temporal stability and the role of posture in simple reach and fishing hand preference in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)


S Díaz, L Murray, SGB Roberts, P Rodway

Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 242, Elsevier, 2021 Sep 1


Loneliness is Negatively Related to Facebook Network Size, but Not Related to Facebook Network Structure


R Brown, SGB Roberts, T Pollet

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, vol. 15, Masaryk University, 2021 Apr 1


Social Network Analysis of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Group in Captivity Following the Integration of a New Adult Member


S Diaz, L Murray, SGB Roberts, P Rodway

International Journal of Primatology, vol. 41, Springer, 2020 Oct 10, pp. 683--700


Extraversion is associated with advice network size, but not network density or emotional closeness to network members


C Malcolm, TK Saxton, K McCarty, SGB Roberts, TV Pollet

Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 168, Elsevier, 2020 Aug 12


Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition


A Roberts, SGB Roberts

Biological Reviews, vol. 95, Wiley, 2019 Oct 14, pp. 51--73


Complex sociality of wild chimpanzees can emerge from laterality of manual gestures


A Roberts, L Murray, S Roberts

Human Nature, Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2019 Jun 24


Gestural repertoire size is associated with social proximity measures in wild chimpanzees.


AI Roberts, A Chakrabarti, SGB Roberts

American Journal of Primatology, Wiley, 2019 Feb 1


Multichannel social signatures and persistent features of ego networks


S Heydari, SG Roberts, RIM Dunbar, J Saramäki

Applied Network Science, vol. 3, SpringerOpen, 2018 Dec 1


Persistence in gestural communication predicts sociality in wild chimpanzees


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts

Animal Cognition, Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2018 Oct 19


Convergence and divergence in gesture repertoires as an adaptive mechanism for social bonding in primates


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts

Royal Society Open Science, vol. 4, The Royal Society, 2017 Nov 29


Social Brain Hypothesis: Vocal and Gesture Networks of Wild Chimpanzees


SGB Roberts, AI Roberts

FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 7, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2016 Nov 24


Wild chimpanzees modify modality of gestures according to the strength of social bonds and personal network size


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts

Scientific Reports, vol. 6, Nature Publishing Group, 2016 Sep 21


The six dimensions of personality (HEXACO) and their associations with network layer size and emotional closeness to network members


C Molho, SGB Roberts, RE de Vries, TV Pollet

PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, vol. 99, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2016 Sep 1, pp. 144--148


Channel-Specific Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication


SGB Roberts, T Aledavood, E Lopez, F Reed-Tsochas, E Moro, R Dunbar, J Saramaki

Proceedings of ECCS 2014 European Conference on Complex Systems, Springer, 2016 May 3


Are men funnier than women, or do we just think they are?


J Hooper, D Sharpe, SGB Roberts

Translational Issues in Psychological Science, vol. 2, 2016 Jan 31, pp. 54--62


Managing Relationship Decay Network, Gender, and Contextual Effects


SBG Roberts, RIM Dunbar

HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, vol. 26, SPRINGER, 2015 Dec 1, pp. 426--450


Gestural Communication and Mating Tactics in Wild Chimpanzees


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts

PLoS One, vol. 10, Public Library of Science, 2015 Nov 4


Daily Rhythms in Mobile Telephone Communication


T Aledavood, E Lopez, SGB Roberts, F Reed-Tsochas, E Moro, RIM Dunbar, J Saramaki

PLoS One, vol. 10, Public Library of Science, 2015 Sep 21


Close social relationships: An evolutionary perspective


SGB Roberts, H Arrow, J Lehmann, R Dunbar

R Dunbar, C Gamble, J Gowlett, Lucy to Language The Benchmark Papers, Oxford University Press, 2014 Feb, pp. 151--180


Persistence of social signatures in human communication


J Saramaki, EA Leicht, E Lopez, SGB Roberts, F Reed-Tsochas, RIM Dunbar

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, National Academy of Sciences, 2014 Jan 21, pp. 942--947


Chimpanzees modify intentional gestures to coordinate a search for hidden food


AI Roberts, S-J Vick, SGB Roberts, CR Menzel

Nature Communications, vol. 5, Nature Publishing Group, 2014 Jan 16


The repertoire and intentionality of gestural communication in wild chimpanzees


AI Roberts, SGB Roberts, S-J Vick

Animal Cognition, vol. 17, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2013 Sep 13, pp. 317--336


Altruism in social networks: Evidence for a 'kinship premium'


O Curry, SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 104, WILEY, 2013 May 1, pp. 283--295


Going That Extra Mile: Individuals Travel Further to Maintain Face-to-Face Contact with Highly Related Kin than with Less Related Kin


TV Pollet, SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

PLOS ONE, vol. 8, PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2013 Jan 25


Time as a limited resource: Communication strategy in mobile phone networks


G Miritello, E Moro, R Lara, R Martinez-Lopez, J Belchamber, SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

SOCIAL NETWORKS, vol. 35, ELSEVIER, 2013 Jan 1, pp. 89--95


A structure-based repertoire of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees: statistical analyses of a graded communication system


AI Roberts, S-J Vick, SGB Roberts, HM Buchanan-Smith, K Zuberbuehler

EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR, vol. 33, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2012 Sep 1, pp. 578--589


Effects of Duration and Laughter on Subjective Happiness Within Different Modes of Communication


TA Vlahovic, S Roberts, R Dunbar

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, vol. 17, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2012 Jul 1, pp. 436--450


Closeness, loneliness, support: Core ties and significant ties in personal communities


JF Binder, SGB Roberts, AG Sutcliffe

SOCIAL NETWORKS, vol. 34, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2012 May 1, pp. 206--214


Constraints on Social Networks


SGB Roberts

Social Brain, Distributed Mind, 2012 Jan 31


Communication in social networks: Effects of kinship, network size, and emotional closeness


SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, vol. 18, WILEY, 2011 Sep 1, pp. 439--452


The costs of family and friends: an 18-month longitudinal study of relationship maintenance and decay


SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR, vol. 32, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2011 May 1, pp. 186--197


Use of Social Network Sites and Instant Messaging Does Not Lead to Increased Offline Social Network Size, or to Emotionally Closer Relationships with Offline Network Members


TV Pollet, SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING, vol. 14, MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC, 2011 Apr 1, pp. 253--258


Extraverts Have Larger Social Network Layers But Do Not Feel Emotionally Closer to Individuals at Any Layer


TV Pollet, SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar

JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, vol. 32, HOGREFE \& HUBER PUBLISHERS, 2011 Jan 1, pp. 161--169


Size matters: Variation in personal network size, personality and effect on information transmission


YE Lu, S Roberts, P Lio, R Dunbar, J Crowcroft

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009, vol. 4, 2009 Dec 4, pp. 188--193


On optimising personal network size to manage information flow


YE Lu, S Roberts, TMK Cheng, R Dunbar, P Lió, J Crowcroft

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, 2009 Dec 1, pp. 19--26


Exploring variation in active network size: Constraints and ego characteristics


SGB Roberts, RIM Dunbar, TV Pollet, T Kuppens

SOCIAL NETWORKS, vol. 31, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2009 May 1, pp. 138--146


Individual differences and personal social network size and structure


SGB Roberts, R Wilson, P Fedurek, RIM Dunbar

PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, vol. 44, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2008 Mar 1, pp. 954--964


An experimental investigation of referential looking in free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)


SGB Roberts, K McComb, T Ruffman

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 122, AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC, 2008 Feb 1, pp. 94--99

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